That's not comparable. Abramovich had just taken over Chelsea back then, spend 140 million pounds that summer. And Drogba only signed a year earlier for Marseille, who were a big enough club to not sell for cheap and Chelsea grossly overpaid. Drogba also performed very well in Europe that year, I remember he lost the UEFA Cup final with Marseille against Rafa's Valencia that year. Auxerre wasn't that big a club, and untill this day that 15 million they got for Cissé is the highest transfer fee they ever recieved.
But everybody knows transfer fees don't accurately depict quality, there's other factors involved that influence transfer fees.
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